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How to become a college basketball player

February 18, 2021

How to become a college basketball player

What's going on guys this is Coach A1 from A1 basketball i'm here to bring you the secrets and the source of how to become a collegiate basketball player.

First i want you guys to know that i believe in you i believe you have what it takes to really go through the process to become a collegiate basketball player the thing is everybody's not willing to pay the price the best way to predict the future is by creating it that takes consistency most players say they want to be a college basketball player but do you really so are you ready for the secret it takes three to five hours of daily commitment every day of putting in tools that will go into your bag that will help reduce the opportunity for you to be a college basketball player.

If you train and develop in this way it gives you a great opportunity to become a college basketball player but it's all those small details that goes into your game even when you put all that in that's still only one third of the process to you becoming a college basketball player.

If you are blessed with a certain genetic code you have the potential to be a college basketball player regardless just based off of your natural abilities. The number one way to set yourself up for failure and not playing to your full potential when you're born with a certain genetics and you come from a certain genetic pool is by not working on all the details of what it requires for you to maximize your true potential so putting those three to five hours a day daily consistently on those certain areas of your game can really help you increase the chances of you playing at a division three, two or one level even turning that division one level into becoming a pro athlete.

Another component to this process of becoming a collegiate basketball player is that X factor. X factor is when you're able to be in front of college coaches to perform and showcase your true abilities and your talents however this only works if those coaches that you're performing in front of have scholarships that they can offer you which will be beneficial to their program sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

To be in the right position at the right time is all random you can't control the x factor only thing you can control is your training and development sorry to break it to you life's not fair if you're expecting to be treated fairly through this process that's the mindset of having a mediocre mentality those three to five hours daily that you're putting work into your game each hour is dedicated to a specific area of your development.

Rather you need to work on becoming more of a fundamental shooter, ball handling, IQ from studying film training your body to become more physically prepared to play at the level that you seek to play at you have to do your best ability to be able to produce what you can control into his greatest form.

So many people are not willing to want to go through that process and they try to cheat the worst thing you can do as a player is look at someone else's journey to getting to where they went it's all about you you focus on the details of what you need to perfect your game to put yourself in a position to become recruitable.

First thing first out of all three the first thing you need to do is accept your natural abilities and your genetic makeup you can't control that you have no saying that god already blessed you with it

The second thing is the x factor it's very random for you to be in front of certain coaches but what you can do is make sure you surround yourself with an organization of people who can place you in front of the right people at the right time that can help determine where your athletic abilities may end up at.

The third thing most importantly is continue to put in work daily three to five hours every day consistently and you my friend i promise you can become a collegiate basketball player.

i've never worked with a player who made it to the collegiate level who did not go through the process of putting in three to five hours

daily consistently on their game detail work for each hour for each component of what they needed to get better at went into their process of getting better whether that is again you're working on specifics of increasing your ball handling passing shooting conditioning you're putting all the skills and drills and the detail work into your game but you never go play it doesn't help so you have to go play against some of the top competition in your area where you go play against players who played at the level of what you want to go play at which will help you get better if you like this and find it helpful please like subscribe and share and follow our youtube channel a1 basketball fitness tv

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By running set-after-set, coaches are turning their players into robots that are learning plays, rather than learning how to play. As a coach, rather than working on new plays and sets, teach your players the vital aspects of good offense, like: Floor balance Dribbling with a purpose Passing Shot selection Screening Cutting It’ll be surprising to how good a offense can be without running sets if players are being taught and drilled on what makes a great offense flawless. Ulterior Motive Coaches If somebody is coaching basketball at the youth level they should be concerned for every players experience, if not coaching youth basketball is not suitable for them. A purpose and need in youth coach is the development of those young players. Help teach the essences of the game while creating the positive experience for each and every player. More times than non we witness coaches that exclude a players experience or they’re coaching specifically to stay hands on with their child. 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